# Please help me identify this (print) painting **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-print-painting/665759 "2013-08-08T23:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-print-painting/665759/1 "2013-08-08T23:38:54Z")
I have a nicely matted and beautifully framed print of what I think is a famous painting.– It looka as though it may have been done in the 1800’s, although the subject may be placed in an earlier time. It is a young girl, 16 or 17, in a loose dark green velvet dress. There is a loose pink silk sash with a yellowy tassle. She has red hair done in a loose bun at the back, lily-white skin, and perfect cupid’s-bow lips. Her eyes look very languid or even disenchanted. She is seated, in profile on her right side, but turned a bit towards the viewer. Placed vertically in front of her is a violin. She has her left hand languidly on the strings, near the bridge. Her right hand holds the bow, also vertically. There is some sheet music and a few daffodils on a table in front of her. In the background, in the top left corner of the picture, is an elaborate birdcage. Sound familiar, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-print-painting/665759/2 "2013-08-08T23:51:36Z")
[A little.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Veronese) ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-help-me-identify-this-print-painting/665759/3 "2013-08-08T23:58:11Z")
13 minutes!! Incredible!! Thank you, **Inner Stickler!** Oddly enough, the bird itself is not in my print. Kinda makes the whole thing a bit more incomprehensible.